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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our … “The Life-Histories of Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).” World Archaeology 30/1: 23-38. Lino, Lisa. 2009. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … Shortly after his career took off, he was forced to leave Germany yet did not develop any long-lasting position in any …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … a curiosity of European music. Also studying this musical culture against the backdrop of more general tendencies in … Following recent scholarly attention to German Jewry in Germany after World War II (Brenner 1997; Geller 2005; …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a … even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only true of the …